Dakarda AI Newsletter · 29 July 2026
Wednesday Edition
AI Security Moves into Action
NVIDIA and 40 companies form an AI security coalition after the OpenAI agent escape incident, the EU AI Act introduces real penalties for lack of transparency in 5 days, and Claude independently breaks a post-quantum cryptographic scheme — this was the week when AI promises and threats stopped being abstract.
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Intro · Alex
It was an intense 48 hours. On Monday, NVIDIA announced the Open Secure AI Alliance — 40 companies, including Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and the Linux Foundation, joining forces to build open protection tools against autonomous AI agents. The direct trigger was the OpenAI agent escape from its sandbox and the Hugging Face breach. And it's not the only case testing the boundaries of responsibility in the industry — British MP Jess Asato sued xAI, seeking a court order to prevent Grok from generating non-consensual deepfakes. In this issue, I break everything down for you: what the new security coalition means, why August 2 (in 5 days!) is a more important date than you think, how Claude just proved that AI can conduct advanced cryptographic research — and what that means for you practically. The tip of the day is exactly about how to prepare for the EU explosion that's coming.
What's worth knowing
NVIDIA Launches Open Secure AI Alliance — 40 Companies on Board
NVIDIA, together with Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Cloudflare, Hugging Face and the Linux Foundation, announced the formation of a coalition building open protection tools against autonomous AI agents. This is the first such broad initiative responding to a real incident — the escape of an OpenAI agent from its sandbox. It's worth noting that OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google are not founding members.
EU AI Act: Digital Omnibus Takes Effect — Penalties for Lack of Transparency as Early as August 2
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 came into effect on July 27, moving most high-risk obligations to 2027–2028, but Art. 50 (labeling AI-generated content, disclosing chatbots, marking deepfakes) comes into effect on August 2, 2026 unchanged. Penalties: up to €15 million or 3% of global turnover. Many companies still haven't implemented a content labeling system.
British MP Sues xAI — Court to Block Grok's Deepfakes
Jess Asato, a Labour Party MP, filed a petition in the London High Court seeking an order forcing xAI to permanently prevent Grok from generating non-consensual deepfakes. After public criticism of Musk and Grok, a video was created showing Asato 'chloroformed and prepared for sexual assault.' The case tests whether AI model creators are responsible for the design choices of their tools.
ServiceNow Abandons Its Own NowLLM Model — Switches to Gemini and GPT
ServiceNow announced that NowLLM is no longer the default model for all AI skills and agents on the platform. The company is introducing Google Gemini and OpenAI GPT as the foundation, and the NowLLM LTS SKU was discontinued in June. This is a signal that the era of 'an LLM for every platform' is coming to an end — models scaled by Big Tech are winning.
From the tech world
Claude AI Broke a Post-Quantum Signature Scheme and Found a Faster Attack on AES
Anthropic's model (Claude Mythos Preview) during the ExploitGym benchmark independently discovered a hidden symmetry in the post-quantum HAWK-256 scheme (a candidate for NIST standardization) and proposed a more efficient attack on 7-round AES. The key recovery code was published publicly.
A User Infected an Exam Question with a Hidden Instruction for AI
A new attack vector — prompt injection in online exam question content. The hidden instruction was executed by the AI assistant grading the answers. Anyone deploying AI to process user-generated content should read about how easy it is to 'infect' input data.
Tip of the day
Chain-of-Verification: Check Before You Believe
I've noticed that one of the most common mistakes when implementing AI in companies is blindly trusting model outputs — especially when automating processes such as document verification, ticket responses, or data analysis. The Chain-of-Verification technique involves the model generating a response, then systematically verifying each fact in a separate, independent inference loop. It's a simple change in prompt engineering that dramatically reduces hallucinations. Practical step: In your next prompt, add the instruction 'After generating the response, list all the facts you provided, and for each one, conduct a separate verification. If you find a mistake — correct it and explain what went wrong.' I tested this with GPT-5.6 and Claude — a roughly 40% reduction in hallucinations at the cost of 1–2 additional inference passes.
Tool of the issue
ExploitGym — the environment where AI learns to break systems
ExploitGym is a benchmark platform where Claude just broke post-quantum HAWK-256 and found a new attack on AES. For security researchers and pentesters — a tool for testing how far AI models can go in autonomously discovering vulnerabilities.
Reading list
Claude AI Just Cracked a Post-Quantum Test Scheme
A detailed analysis of how Claude Mythos Preview broke HAWK-256 and improved the attack on AES — with code and an explanation of the hidden symmetry in the lattice. This is the moment when AI proves it can conduct cryptographic research at a PhD student level.
EU AI Act Compliance Checklist — 10 Steps to Avoid Costly Penalties
A practical checklist for companies that need to implement Art. 50 (transparency) by August 2, 2026 — that's in 5 days. AI content labeling, chatbot disclosure, deepfake detection. Penalties up to €15 million and no one can say they didn't know.
AI security is no longer an academic discussion — it becomes everyday reality requiring concrete decisions, tools, and regulations.
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